BAY NOMINATIONS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 44, 2 August 1939, Page 8

BAY NOMINATIONS

BEST AND MITCHELL FOR MINOR UNION GAME Seven Bay or Plenty Rugby players have bee a chosen by the selectors, Messrs A. G. Spratt G. Peebles and Lcs Clarke, for nomination for the North Lsland Minor Unions' team to play the South Island Minor -Unions* team this season. The match "will be an important one, as it will probably be witnessed by the New Zealand selectors, and outstanding players will no doubt, be selected tor consklerat : on as All Black representatives. The Bay of Plenty nominees coinjjri.se five forwards and two backs Erkl are the following:— A. D. Robinson (21). Rotorua, height.. 6ft lin, weight l.'tet Gib. position, side row. J. McNeil (2(5) Tauranga, 6ft. 13st 3libs, side row. W r . S. Nicholson (25) Tc Puke, sft 11'ns, M •?, s'de row. T. Whitely (28), Rangitaiki. lift lin, lost (s!bs. lock. .T. Best, Whakat-inc. 11. Payment (2")), Tauranga, sft llins 13st, fullback. (J. Miteheil, Whakalane. win J three-qunrte:-. The lasLnamcd . jilayen has been selected on the strength oi" his plav for the Manawatu Union, f"om which he lias jiLs't come. Prior to playing for that union, he jjlaycd for College and the New Zealand University, and he had been considered by critics of the game as certain of a pla,ce iiv-^thqManawatu touring team liatl he localitj r .